Customize Answers in OBIEE

I'm deploying with Answers of Oracle Business Enterprise Edition, my question is: can I customize the Answer? for example can I disable some features of the Answers for some kind of users?Can I give the permission to a specific user to see only the tab criteria or result?
Thanks and Regards

Hello,
can you change the default settings of permissions to Answers clicking in 'Dashboard' -> 'Settings' -> 'Administration' -> 'Manage Privileges' and change the privileges that you want in the section 'Answers'.

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try this, It seemed to have worked for me..
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i didn't get that you are talking on which bug?
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